Our March issue review highlights includes:
• Social networks, web-based tools and diseases
• 3D cell culture: the missing link in drug discovery
• Biological network inference for drug discovery
• Expanding medicinal chemistry space
Cover Story
The leading story of this issue of Drug Discovery Today discusses how the emergence of different types of social networks has fostered connections between individuals, thus facilitating data exchange in a variety of fields. Therefore, the question posed now is: could these same tools be applied to life sciences to improve scientific and medical research? Fabricio F. Costa answers this question by reviewing how social networks and other web-based tools are changing the way we approach and track diseases in biomedical research.
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